Add-On Releases - VB Pro Garage Timeslips

Description
VB Pro Garage Timeslips (formerly CND Garage/Timeslips) is a free vehicle and timeslips add on for vBulletin 4. This is a great way to allow members to show off their rides, whether they are cars, motorcycles, atv's, etc. Site administrators have dozens of options to tailor the way the garage is displayed and the number of vehicles, images and timeslips the user can enter. User vehicle creation is done through a simple screen with dropdowns and simple text fields. Users can enter either miles or km and system will automatically calculate differences for front page statistics.

** New Features **
* SEO Friendly URLs (htaccess only)
* Page Caching - physical html files which make a HUGE reduction in sql queries
* Front Categories - a category system as an alternate front page to the block layout. I believe it will increase the garage ranking in search engines greatly when used with SEO URL's and the included dynamic meta tags.
* Thread Creation - Automatically create new threads in the forum of your choosing with the text of your choosing when a new vehicle is created in the garage.

Main Features

* No vb template modification needed
* Ajax driven menu's to keep load time down if you have a very large lists of makes/models
* Usergroup level permissions to set the amount of vehicles, images, timeslips allowed
* 99.9% of the text is phrased so that it can be translated for multinational sites
* On the fly image/text watermarking ability to make sure images are tied to your site
* Lytebox image presentation

Installation
Instructions, tips and more are now in the included chm file. If you have problems with the chm I have the document published at:
http://www.vbprogarage.com/forums/docs/html_vb4_ts_300/

The quick and dirty install:
1) Upload all files in the upload folder
2) Import vb_pro_garage.xml into Product Manager
3) Import vb_pro_garage_language_english.xml into Languages & Phrases
4) If you want all makes and models I've collected, import vb_pro_garage_vehicles^^new_install_only.xml into Product Manager

Post Installation
So you don't have to find it in the instructions. After install, there is a button up top in the navbar. This button by default is admin only. This is so you can configure and test without having to close the garage. When you are ready to deploy to the community:
ACP->Settings->Options->Garage General Settings - Set Garage Menu Button to Enabled.

The garage is developed on vb 4.0.7 and tested back to 4.0.0. The garage will run on PHP 5.x+ compiled with GD/GD2 and MySQL 5.x+

Additional options for the garage like adding featured businesses that support your site, fuel tracking, dyno charts, modifications and lots more are included in the commercial version.

Many thanks to Coroner for his stylebridge which led me on a path that saved me hours and hours of template editing

There are a few bugs that you might run into on this version. Instead of working on correcting them in the files and working on getting a new package up here, I'm working on the next version and including the posts that fix the errors here.

Change Log:
v3.0.9 - 09/29/2012
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Fixed sql injection problem
Replaced depreciated split function usage
Fixed sql error on image comments
Fixed Make/Model count on front page resetting to 1
Fixed extra unlabeled field on vehicle create/edit (Timeslips only)
Fixed postbit dropdown showing character code
Fixed tables incorrectly set with TYPE instead of ENGINE
Added navigation manager links to product xml

v3.0.8 - 12/9/2010
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Fixed missing vehicle comment code

v3.0.7 - 12/1/2010
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Fixed error with non existant garage_special_track table

v3.0.6 - 11/21/2010
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Fixed who's online error
Fixed map infowindow colors

v3.0.5 - 11/15/2010
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Fixed error with member profile vehicle block
Fixed member tab url path
Fixed error on vehicle map with apostrophes in title

v3.0.4a - 11/12/2010
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Corrected package error

v3.0.4 - 11/11/2010
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Fixed error with front blocks
Fixed style error with vB4.0.8 changes

v3.0.3 - 11/2/2010
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Fixed duplicate countries
Fixed vehicle view slideshow image size
Fixed username browse error
Fixed geocode error on missing zip
Fixed postbit error with vehicles that have a apostrophe in the name

v3.0.2 - 10/25/2010
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Fixed missing add vehicle button on member profile
Added bbcode capabilities to welcome box on garage front page
Moved vehicle count to db table to ease db queries
Added notification scheduled task to send message to new users about adding a garage entry
Added default clear image for watermark
Fixed code to disregard watermark option if image is missing
Fixed search username error
Updated obsolete data queries
Added SEO Friendly URLS
Added page caching capabilities
Fixed sql error with moving vehicle class and color to new selection on deletion in ACP
Added function to replace non english characters with english characters in ajax selection lists
Added image comments
Added notification for image and vehicle comments
Added option to add page title
Added zip code to vehicle and googlemap
Added ability to disable and ability to hide info for googlemap

[raiderlax]

Thanks, I'll stick with 2.1.9

How much is the pro version?

Also, I can't see where to enable "CATEGORIES" ?

And, for some reason I can't comment on my own vehicle... ?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by raiderlax

Thanks, I'll stick with 2.1.9

How much is the pro version?

Also, I can't see where to enable "CATEGORIES" ?

And, for some reason I can't comment on my own vehicle... ?

The categories are enabled on the Garage General Settings tab in the vB Settings area. The field is called Front Page View.
How do you have your usergroup permissions setup? The field is on the same tab called Usergroup Permissions

[raiderlax]

I don't see "Front Page View" under general settings. I am using 2.1.9.

I enabled "Advanced Usergroup Settings" but I don't see any settings in the usergroups for vb garage.

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by raiderlax

I don't see "Front Page View" under general settings. I am using 2.1.9.

I enabled "Advanced Usergroup Settings" but I don't see any settings in the usergroups for vb garage.

Oh duh, it's late lol. You can't use categories in 2.1.9, it's one of the new features in the 3.0.x series.
There is a section on the left pane of the ACP called VB Pro Garage that has a Usergroup Permissions area. When you have the permissions set to advanced it will use those for the garage items.

[goowa]

I'm getting several hundred sql errors per day which is very strange because the forum is turned off so there shouldn't be anyone using it. The error I get is:

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.8:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT languageid,
phrasegroup_global AS phrasegroup_global,
phrasegroup_user AS phrasegroup_user,
phrasegroup_postbit AS phrasegroup_postbit,
phrasegroup_infractionlevel AS phrasegroup_infractionlevel,
phrasegroup_dto_garage AS phrasegroup_dto_garage,
options AS lang_options,
languagecode AS lang_code,
charset AS lang_charset,
locale AS lang_locale,
imagesoverride AS lang_imagesoverride,
dateoverride AS lang_dateoverride,
timeoverride AS lang_timeoverride,
registereddateoverride AS lang_registereddateoverride,
calformat1override AS lang_calformat1override,
calformat2override AS lang_calformat2override,
logdateoverride AS lang_logdateoverride,
decimalsep AS lang_decimalsep,
thousandsep AS lang_thousandsep
FROM language
WHERE languageid = 1;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'phrasegroup_dto_garage' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Sunday, November 7th 2010 @ 01:09:44 PM
Error Date : Sunday, November 7th 2010 @ 01:09:44 PM
Script : http://mysite.com/forum/dto_garage.php?do=index
Referrer :
IP Address : xxx.xx.xx.xxx
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

Any ideas?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by goowa

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'phrasegroup_dto_garage' in 'field list'


Any ideas?

That's not my mod, that's the DTO Garage.

[goowa]

Sorry. Bizarre, I don't have DTO garage installed!

[BajaBoatOwners]

Originally Posted by lovefords

I have worked through all of the directions above, including Overwrite English, and I get this install error:

This file was created using a different version of vBulletin from the one you are running.

Your version: 4.0.2
File version: 3.7.4

also, the .cmh help file is completely blank for content, just the framework is there.

I would buy the Pro version if I can get the free one installed correctly first.

I'm also having this issue when trying to install the language files..

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by BajaBoatOwners

I'm also having this issue when trying to install the language files..

Make sure you have it set like the bottom of this page.

http://www.vbprogarage.com/forums/do...ion_script.htm

[BajaBoatOwners]

Originally Posted by Dylanblitz

Make sure you have it set like the bottom of this page.

http://www.vbprogarage.com/forums/do...ion_script.htm

Got everything to install, but now I get this error when I make it Active...

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/garage_plugin_func.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(509) : eval()'d code on line 201

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/xnetent/public_html/h/bajaboatowners.com/includes/garage_plugin_func.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /home/xnetent/public_html/h/bajaboatowners.com/includes/class_bootstrap.php(509) : eval()'d code on line 201